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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Health, Money

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

Life, Happiness, Rather

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

Nature, Human, Others

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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Large, Extent

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, America, Land

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks

I think a submarine is a very worthwhile weapon. I believe we can defend ourselves with submarines and all our troops back at home. This whole idea that we have to be in 130 countries and 900 bases... is an old-fashioned idea.
Ron Paul

Home, Whole, Idea

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden

Good, Heart, Laugh

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
William James

Hell, Wrong, Worse

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Poetry, Feelings

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Yourself, Heart, Human

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Night, Themselves

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

Women, Real, Give

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis

Courage, Live, Find

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
Orison Swett Marden

Time, May, Cannot

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Alexander Pope

Angry, Revenge, Others

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Depression, American, Word

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Marcus Garvey

Success, Else, Nation

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse

Hate, Yourself, Person

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
Billy Graham

Change, God, Made

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila

God, Learn, Surrender

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville

Men, Live, Cannot

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay

Love, Great, Lives

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
Audre Lorde

Women, Respect, Fear

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

Love, Others, Discovery

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Together, Cannot, Problems

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Knowledge, Alone, Live

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Might, Meet

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
Thurgood Marshall

Teacher, Down, Here

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness, Happy, May

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